Improvement in picture-hangers



ATEET CHARLES M. SMITH, 0E BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTURE-HANGERS. Y

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 16S, 113, dated September 28, 1875; application filed August 10, 1875.

I Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Picture-Hangers; and doherebjr declare the same to be fully described in the following .specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Wliich- Figure l denotes a top v'iew, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of a picture fixed to a wall by lnyinvention. Fig. 3 is a top view of 'one of the double-hooked screws, while Fig. 4 is a top View of the Theaded screw with which such double-hooked screw operates.

In the drawings, Adenotes the picture, and B the wall, or parts of both, there being screwed into the back of the frame ofthe said Y picture two `of the double-hooked screws. C, and into the wall two of the T-headed screws vD, to be hereinafter described. Each screw C is composed of a'coinmon screw, a, a head, b, and two hooks, c c, the screw being extended in one direction from the head b, while the hooks are projected froinit in the opposite direction, and at a short distance apart. The T-headed screw has a Screw, d, from whose head e there projects a shank, f, terminating in a cylindrical cross-head, g. This head g is arranged at right angles with the shank f, and projects in oppositedirections therefrom, all as shown. Such head g may be ncked lengthwise, as shown at h, to receive a screw? 'driver for setting the screw d into a Wall.

In using vthe picture-hanger the hooked prongs of yeach screw AC are to embrace the shanlrf and hook upon the cross-head g, all as shown in the drawings. When two of the parts G are screwed into the picture-frame and into the Wall at suitable distances apart, two K EETcE. l 

